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Sensational spelling is the deliberate spelling of a word in a non-standard way for special effect. [1]
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Sensational spelling is the deliberate spelling of a word in a non-standard way for special effect. [1]
Sensational spellings are common in advertising [1] and product placement. In particular, brand names [1] such as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (crispy cream), Weet-Bix (wheat, with bix being derived from biscuits), Blu-ray (blue), Kellogg's "Froot Loops" (fruit) or Hasbro's Playskool (school) may use unexpected spellings to draw attention to or trademark an otherwise common word. [2] In video games, well-known examples of sensational spelling include " Mortal Kombat " (combat) and Nintendo's "Pak" (pack), the name used for the media and accessories of its early video game systems.[ citation needed ]
Sensational spelling may take on a cult value in popular culture, such as the heavy metal umlaut.
Other examples include The Byrds, and Led Zeppelin, in which "led" was deliberately misspelled to make clear it is pronounced /lɛd/ (as in the metal lead) [3] rather than the other pronunciation of "lead", /liːd/ . Whereas The Beatles were named largely as a pun for their beat-driven style, [4] many bands following their success in the mid-1960s (e.g. The Monkees) adopted sensational spelling in an effort (by either themselves or their record labels) to capitalize on a fad. The Turtles successfully resisted an effort by their label, White Whale Records, to name them "The Tyrtles." [5]
In contemporary music, the misspelling of words in album or song titles rose to popularity in early 1970s rock,[ citation needed ] such as:
In the 1980s it became common with funk artists such as Prince (e.g. "U Got The Look", "I Would Die 4 U"), and came to be epitomized in the rap and hip hop genres, with both song titles (e.g. Eazy-E's "Eazy-Duz-It" and T-Pain's "Buy U A Drank") and artists' names (e.g. Ludacris, Phanatik, Timbaland, Xzibit, Gorillaz) using the form. Sensational spelling was common amongst nu metal bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s (e.g., Korn, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit). The term "nu metal" itself is a sensational spelling of "new metal", and sometimes even stylized as "nü-metal", with an additional metal umlaut.
An influential hard-rock magazine of the 1970s–80s was Creem .
Many popular websites have grown from intentionally misspelling their name such as Flickr, Reddit, Tumblr, Imgur, Digg, Google and Scribd. Google's was largely an unintentional error, as its founders had intended to call it Googol after the extremely large number. [6] In many such cases, the unorthodox spelling is done for trademark purposes, search engine optimization and/or to make it easier to secure a domain name.
Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds is an intentional misspelling of "Inglorious Bastards".
Aleister Crowley called his system of ceremonial magic "magick" to differentiate it from stage magic.
In modern fantasy, the spelling faerie (also fae or fey) may be used in place of fairy , to distinguish it from the childish connotations of fairy tales. [7]
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